Louth, Lincolnshire - St James Church - Skilton art postcard

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• Picture / Image:  St. James Church, Louth, Lincolnshire
• Publisher:  Charles Skilton & Fry Ltd.
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Louth ⁱ/'la??/ is a market town and civil parish within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

Known as the ""capital of the Lincolnshire Wolds"", it is situated where the ancient trackway Barton Street crosses the River Lud, and has a total resident population of 15,930.^[1]

The Greenwich Meridian crosses Eastgate and this point is marked with a plaque on the north side of the street, just east of the junction with Northgate. The three-mile (5 km) £6.6 million A16 Louth Bypass opened in August 1991. The former route is the B1520.

Three handaxes have been found on the wolds surrounding Louth, dating from between 424,000 to 191,000 years ago, indicating inhabitation in Paleolithic era.^[2] Bronze Age archeological finds include a 'barbed and tanged' arrowhead found in the grounds of Monks' Dyke Tennyson College.^[3]

St Helen's Spring, at the Gatherums, off Aswell Street, is dedicated to a popular medieval saint, the mother of Constantine the Great, the first Roman Emperor to become a Christian,^[4] but is thought to be a Christianised Romano-British site for veneration of the pagan water-goddess Alauna.^[5]

The Anglo-Saxon pagan burial ground, northwest of Louth, dates from the fifth to sixth centuries, and was first excavated in 1946.^[6] With an estimated 1200 urn burials it is one of the largest Anglo-Saxon cremation cemeteries in England.^[2]

Æthelhard, a Bishop of Winchester who was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 793, was an abbot of Louth in his early life.^[7]

In 1086, Louth was mentioned in the Domesday book as a town of 124 households.^[8]

Louth Park Abbey was founded in 1139 by the Bishop Alexander of Lincoln as a daughter-house of the Cistercian Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire.^[9] Following its dissolution in 1536 it fell into ruin and, today, only earthworks survive, on private land, between Louth and Keddington.^[10][11] Monks' Dyke, now a ditch, was originally dug to supply the abbey with water from the springs of Ashwell and St. Helen's at Louth.^[12]

In 1643, Sir Charles Bolles, a resident of Louth, raised a 'hastily-got-up soldiery' for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Fighting took place in, and around the town and, at one point, Bolles was forced to take refuge under the Ramsgate bridge.^[13] By the battle's end 'Three strangers, being souldgeres, was slain at a skirmish at Lowth, and was buryed'.^[13] Human remains, found during archaeological visits to Louth Park Abbey during the 1800s, in 'a little space surrounded by a ditch', were believed to date from the Civil War as two cannonballs, from that era, were found with the bodies.^[14]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=lincolnshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted